NAD Mark V35

[Markedman]

Mesa Boogie mark 535 by John Bazzano, on Flickr

Yes, it's loud. Yes, the 10 watt setting is quite usable although the 35 watt setting is killer. Overall it is what I expected, a light, ferocious amp with plenty of options for metal tone.

I paid $1,100.00 for it on Reverb. The guy forgot to pack the original knobs.

I tried a few different speakers and the combination of two G12-75's 16 ohm in an open back cabinet & a Thiele EVM12L sounds the best.

 

[midnightlaundry]

Cool, I'd get the stock Knobs on there!
Cab powered by JESUS!

 

[CrystalSky]

Happy NAD!

Nice deal too!

 

[Markedman]

I’m not religious, but I love the cross thing. I always have.

Religion freaks me out and always has, when I was forced to go as a child, I would sit and laugh the whole time, and my mother would pinch me for laughing, but I thought it was ridiculous that these people were saying stuff that was similar to what they were telling me about Santa Claus.

I do believe in God.


So far, I like the extreme mode the best, but I’ve only played at low volume. I did try a shit load of speakers. when I had the 25 watt version, I liked the C plus mode the best with the band so we’ll see when I play this with my friends as to which mode I like the best.

 

[Dino 939]

Do not replace the adjuster knobs.
That shit looks DOPE AF man.
Move the small cross onto the small cabinet, relocate the overweight Christ cross
to the larger speaker cabinet.
Now.. flip those cabinets on their sides,
-get the god damn power tube off the floor
(What, are you Wal-Mart White ?)

Did Chad Daybell just get a Mk35???

 

[midnightlaundry]

The Book Of Enoch is particularly cool to me. They excluded it from the Bible..
It describes among other things how the Watcher Angels knocked up the human women and bore monsters called Nephilim, which is the real reason God flooded the world so that they would die. True or not, it's a cool story..

 

[Markedman]

My wrists hurt.

A 60-year-old man playing Metallica, Slayer and Pantera all night and morning, I’m feeling my age and loving every fucking second of fucking tone I’m getting out of this little bastard. The 35 W (more like 50+ watts) mode is where it’s at.

C+ sounds A+ for Master of Puppets ?

 

[Markedman]

The reason I bought this amp is to have a quick option to bring to open mics parties and informal jams. So a one speaker cabinet would be optimum. My choices are an open back Boogie cabinet with an EVM 12 L, a mesa boogie thiele with a C90 and another thiele with the EVM 12 L, a 2 x 12 cabinet with 2-16 ohm G 12–75’s in it. I also have a closed back cabinet with the Mesa Boogie Fillmore 75 in it.
All of them are pretty good options but right now I’m thinking of putting the Fillmore in the open back boogie cabinet because it has a blend of the two flavors, sticking the thiele EV underneath wouldn’t be too hard to bring either.

 

[jeff5]

Extrodinarily versititle and great amp. I'm never parting with mine. I really like it with a Mesa 1X12 wide body, closed back with a C90. It is a nice a portal rig in that format too. I don't use extreme much, but it can be fun!

 

[Markedman]

This really is the perfect amp for me. When the JP2C came out, I said this has absolutely everything I need, but was actually a little too much. The Mark five was good but too big. I watched a bunch of reviews of the Mark seven and it’s great, but big. In the reviews that I read for the 535, some people were complaining about not being able to switch to clean, which is ridiculous, all you have to do is hit one little switch right before the song that you need clean guitar on then switch it back afterwards.

 

[rsm]

The reason I bought this amp is to have a quick option to bring to open mics parties and informal jams. So a one speaker cabinet would be optimum. My choices are an open back Boogie cabinet with an EVM 12 L, a mesa boogie thiele with a C90 and another thiele with the EVM 12 L, a 2 x 12 cabinet with 2-16 ohm G 12–75’s in it. I also have a closed back cabinet with the Mesa Boogie Fillmore 75 in it.
All of them are pretty good options but right now I’m thinking of putting the Fillmore in the open back boogie cabinet because it has a blend of the two flavors, sticking the thiele EV underneath wouldn’t be too hard to bring either.

This is why I got my Marshall Origin 50C 1x12 combo. I think it sounds great, JTM-45, JTM-45/100 and close to 1959SLP IMO. Very responsive, and manageable with the wattage settings. I liked it enough to get the Origin 50H and two 4x12 cabs for the full stack.

 

[JLR]

Almost took mine to my gig last night but went with my Orange Rocker 30. Bought mine in 2017 and generally use a 2x12 Mesa rectifier cab. Tight bottom end chugging to blackface Fender cleans and everything inbetween in 1 amp. My favorite is the crunch mode as I'm a Marshall lover as well. Very versatile amp.

 

[Speeddemon]

Congrats on the amp! I love my lil' V25 and I usually live on Xtreme mode.

The reason I bought this amp is to have a quick option to bring to open mics parties and informal jams. So a one speaker cabinet would be optimum. My choices are an open back Boogie cabinet with an EVM 12 L, a mesa boogie thiele with a C90 and another thiele with the EVM 12 L, a 2 x 12 cabinet with 2-16 ohm G 12–75’s in it. I also have a closed back cabinet with the Mesa Boogie Fillmore 75 in it.
All of them are pretty good options but right now I’m thinking of putting the Fillmore in the open back boogie cabinet because it has a blend of the two flavors, sticking the thiele EV underneath wouldn’t be too hard to bring either.

Can you elaborate on the sound differences between the C90 Thiele vs. the EVM12L Thiele?
I got 2 EVM Thiele cabs for my V25 and they sound awesome, but I always wondered about the C90 versions.

For a while, I had an half-open 1x12 Mesa cab with with the EVM12L; sounded a bit more woody and crunchy than the Thiele, but a tad more middy and less punchy. So better suited for classic rock than metal, I'd say. I sold that cab.

 

[311boogieman]

Congrats dude.
Seems like a legit price for sure.
HNV35D

 

[TheGreatGreen]

The V25 and V35 are easily the best ultra light weight small footprint amps you can get. I have a V25 and love that little thing.

Congrats!

 

[Markedman]

Comparing this amp to the full-size is like comparing the full-size to the Colosseum. It has plenty of thump and articulation. I have found that Celestion speakers get me the perfect tone, as it is exactly like the tone from master of puppets.
I read the manual, but as far as I’m concerned going from the C+ to the mark IV to the extreme mode, it’s like pulling the pull deep switches on the older Mark amps.
The clean channel is everything I could want in an ordinary normal amp and then I have channel 2, which is all of the things I love about Mesa Boogie amps.
For what it is, and for the reasons that I bought this amp, it is everything and more.

 

[MetalThrasher]

Love my Mark V 35 as well! You should try messing around with the crunch mode on channel one! You can get a really good thrash metal tone out of it. I love all the channels and modes but for some reason I really enjoy the crunch mode! Enjoy the amp!

 

[Markedman]

I was all over that mode today, especially messing with the mid-gain feature. The fat mode is as good as I'll ever need, no, it's much better. Someone posted the Doobie Bros song, so I used the crunch mode to play along to that song.

I'm very hesitant about asking the guys about adding a "Jesus" song to our list. I live in Connecticut, as in the NYC+Boston area. Most of the people that go out and party come here on the weekends are from NYC/Boston. Jesus and the Don freak them out! oops! Sorry, not sorry! The drummer will probably say yes, the bassist, maybe. I think it would be great crowd waker-upper, sing-along, let's get along, song. Plus, I can remember the lyrics!

 

[JLR]

I've posted this before but might have been on the gear page. Go on the telecaster forum and find the glowing bottle tube amp section. There is an aged thread on the Mesa 25/35 cloning a bunch of different amps such as Dumble, Marshall, Fender blackface tones using some real unorthodox settings. Settings you would never think to use. I've tried them and they work. For example if you dime the mid knob the bass and treble are deactivated. Turn those knobs all you want, won't make a difference. I knew the amp was flexible but that thread really opened my eyes to the chameleon like characteristics of the 35. I started a spreadsheet with various setting and plan on laminating a copy, punch a hole in it and loop it around the handle. I'll physically marry the settings to the amp...only fuckin way I'll actually remember them.

 

[JackBootedThug]

all marks kill...I have not tried any of mesa's newer stuff. mark IV and roadking are the newest ones I've played...lol...